Law: Future Funding

Twice, a worried Charles Younger, 38, asked the staff in the Stanford
University Hospital deli very room about his newborn's inactivity. He
got only brisk reassurances. Finally, after 40 minutes, Younger
pleaded: "How can I tell if my baby is alive?" Anna was alive, barely.
She was suffering from oxygen deprivation, and the child today is a
quadriplegic. But at least Anna will have few financial worries. The
reason: an increasingly popular new way to settle malpractice lawsuits.